Sub-dissociative-dose intranasal ketamine for moderate to severe pain in adult emergency department patients

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 237-242

  Yeaman, Fiona ^a   Meek, Robert ^a,b   Egerton Warburton, Diana ^a,c   Rosengarten, Pamela ^d   Graudins, Andis ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d FRANKSTON HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Emergency medicine; Intranasal; Ketamine; Pain

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLURRED VISION; COUGHING; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN STUDY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERINEUM ABSCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SELF REPORT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROAT IRRITATION; WOUND INFECTION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84901840500     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1742-6723.12173     Document Type: Article

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